Sr Product Designer

Be part of a growing, successful company in an exciting and challenging field. Border States is 100% employee-owned, which means you’re empowered to make decisions, find solutions and receive rewards for your hard work.
 
This position will be located in: Fargo, ND  

Application Deadline: August 20, 2025

Please note that the position may be filled before or after the listed application deadline. Applications will only be accepted while the posting remains active.

Job Summary

The Senior Product Designer creates innovative, user-friendly mobile apps, web platforms, and software that meet user and business needs. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, this role ensures seamless experiences and enhanced functionality. A UX leader and user advocate, the designer translates research into impactful design strategies and helps shape both current projects and the long-term product vision.

Responsibilities

Essential Functions

• Collaborates with technical product owners, analysts, business stakeholders, and customers to understand product requirements and user needs.
• Solves complex design challenges with creative and effective solutions, balancing user needs, business goals, and technical constraints.
• Leads product design direction and creates intuitive, user-friendly interfaces for mobile apps, web platforms, and software applications.
• Produces wireframes, prototypes, deliverables, and high-fidelity designs using Figma.
• Utilizes user-centered research methods and conducts usability testing to validate designs.
• Communicates design rationale and transforms research findings into actionable insights and design strategies.
• Continuously iterates on product designs based on feedback from users, stakeholders, research, and testing.
• Performs occasional UX audits, upholds usability principles, and makes recommendations for consistent user experiences across the platform.
• Works with development and QA teams to ensure seamless implementation of designs and provides design feedback during sprint cycles.
• Partners with developers on the creation and maintenance of libraries, style guides, design systems, and reusable design components for use across all technologies.
• Ensures designs are consistent with brand guidelines and product vision.
• Stays up to date with the latest design trends, tools, and technologies in the IT and software development industries.

Non-essential Functions

• Performs off-hours support as needed.
• Promotes and maintains the identity and reputation of the company, ensuring customer satisfaction and addressing problems and complaints as they arise.
• Performs other duties as assigned by supervisor or other designate.
   

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Product Design, Graphic Design, HCI, Computer Science, or a related field or equivalent work experience, required.
• Three plus years proven experience as a Product Designer, UX/UI Designer, or similar role in IT product design 

Skills and Abilities

• Professional portfolio demonstrating UX craft and design skills across digital products (mobile apps, web platforms, and software applications).
• Strong problem-solving skills with a focus on user-centered design principles.
• Experience in Information Architecture (IA), Usability, Interaction Design (IxD), Visual Design, and Facilitation.
• Expertise in design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, or equivalent.
• Proficiency in user-centered design processes and techniques, including research, wireframing, prototyping, and usability testing.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to tell compelling stories about users, present projects to peers across disciplines, and defend design decisions to key stakeholders.
• A keen interest in technology, an awareness of front-end development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), and an understanding of how design translates to code.
• Knowledge of core interaction patterns and digital interface best practices, including accessibility guidelines and inclusive design principles.

Physical Requirements

Frequency at which you would carry/lift in a typical day:
Occasionally 0 – 33% Frequently 34 – 66% Continuously: 67 – 100%

• Lift from Waist:
  • < than 10 lbs. - Not at all
  • 10 to 25 lbs. - Not at all
  • 26 to 50 lbs. - Not at all
  • 51 to 75 lbs. - Not at all
  • 75 to 100 lbs. - Not at all
  • 100+ lbs. - Not at all
• Lift from Floor:
  • < than 10 lbs. - Frequently
  • 10 to 25 lbs. - Occasionally<